New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-11-04
FEATURES OF THE BROOKLYN CAMPAIGN.


DIDATEs-DEMoCRATI BRIBERY.
The final rally OF Republicans In Brooklyn In the pres
ent closely contested campaign Will be held In the Palace
Rink in Clcrmontave 10 morrow evening The spacious
building, which unable to contain the throngs Who
wanted to hear Senator Hscock and Senator Miller
and Colonies Grant and Baird last Saturday night
will again be unequal 10 tho task OF holding all who will
wish to hear the speeches The meeting Ia under the
direction OF the Brooklyn Young Republican Club. and
President William IL. Williams will have the chair. The
chief speakers will be exMayor Low. exJudge George
g. Reynolds. William II. Nichols, OF tho Citizens
League, and James McKeen, candidate for Alderman
at Large.
Important meetings ofcolored voters were eve
ming; one in Hail. where W. H. Johnson the Rev
W. b. Derrick. j. q Allen and several Of the Republican
candidates addressed largo audience and the other In
Union Hail. at Meseroe and Even Sta. whore a number
Of speakers interested hrong OF hearers and great
thusiasm prevailed Other Republican meetings were
held night in the Eighth. Fifteenth Eighteenth and
Twenty second Wards.
Tho C,vl service Reform Association has sent quss-
tons TO the candidates for Mayor In regard to their
attitude toward Civil Service lava Colonel Baird has
made the following manly and frank response TO the
letter OF Edwin Packard. chairman OF tho Executive
Committee OF the association:
SIR In response OF tho 29th instant glad
the opportunity TO that the officials would II
elected Msyor DO called on 10 appoint ov Service Com.
such recognized reputation anc character as 70 AFFORD
capzctV and that tho prsvons VI the Act TO
ana m Cv Service and the and
with It, and the declaration TO which
platform Of the convection which nty nom
shall ALWAYS have fair and honest Observance In
spirit well ~ In letter.
Controller Chaplin contents himself with this
initial answer:
SIR: Your favor Of the 29th instant reached In due
season. made TIVE spscinc state nens OF position
the questions which are most eoncsrnel in One OF
the ether " N speech which dsivsrsi at tho
Thursday evening Beyond those statsnonts
ana hardly seems 10 DO
necessary or proper 70 90 further than have demo
Andrew d. Brown, the United Labor candidate for
member Of Assembly in the Xth District in BROOKLYN.
asser that has been offered bride OF 81 800 BY tho
Democrats to withdraw, and q promise that he shall
receive the Democratic nomination next year. lie In
dignanty spurned the offer Mr. Brown refused ycster
day to give the Of the who offered to bribe
him, but said II the statement was denied he would
substantiate II with afndavit A sample OF Demo
cratic methods In Brooklyn Is shown In the transfer of
two policemen In the Twelfth Ward from the Eleventh
to the Eighteenth Precinct because they refused To sup
mort the candidate favored by Alderman Mike Cofcy
for ia cnber OF Assembly Co6ey has also secured the
removal Of the United States Weighers office from
rters rented OF Lawrence COuzcn ut No IL Hamil
ton ave. to an Office owned by John Egan on india
Wharf, Atlantic Dock The reason for this Is that
(ouzcn is Republican. although tho ONCE In his build
ing has been uso for twelve years, while Egan Is
COneY DemOcrat